Section 44.045

Title V MILITARY AFFAIRS AND POLICE

Chapter 44

Effective - 28 Aug 2005, 3 histories, see footnote   (history) 

  *44.045.  Health care professionals may be deployed during a state of emergency — release of certain confidential information permitted, when. — 1. Subject to approval by the state emergency management agency during an emergency declared by the governor or general assembly, any health care professional licensed, registered, or certified in this state may be deployed to provide care as necessitated by the emergency, including care necessitated by mutual aid agreements between political subdivisions and other public and private entities under section 44.090.

  2. In a declared state of emergency, the department of health and senior services and the division of professional registration within the department of economic development may release otherwise confidential contact and licensure, registration, or certification information relating to health care professionals to state, local, and private agencies to facilitate deployment.

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(L. 2005 H.B. 58)

*This section was enacted by both H.B. 58 and S.B. 420 & 344 during the First Regular Session of the 93rd General Assembly, 2005.  Due to possible conflict, both versions are printed here.